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The Baptist churches in America, like the country, split in two over the issue of slavery in the United States. In 1840, the Board of Managers of the Baptist General Convention for Foreign Missions repeated that the slavery question, which it never mentions by name, is not relevant to their work.
Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick (1918–2014, US), Executive Board member of the Louisiana Baptist Convention; Newton Knight (1829–1922, US), Confederate deserter who led a band of escaped slaves; Malcolm X (1925–1965, US), raised Baptist, but later converted to Islam
In 1944, the convention had 2,352,339 members, and in 2000, the National Baptist Convention of America grew to about 3.5 million members in the United States. [13] It became the third-largest predominantly African American Christian body in the United States after the National Baptist Convention, USA and the Church of God in Christ .
The Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO), now known simply as Oklahoma Baptists, is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [1] The convention is made up of 41 Baptist associations and around 1,750 churches as of 2020.
The president of the Southern Baptist Convention heads the convention and is elected at the annual meeting. The president's duties include presiding over the annual meeting; appointing members to SBC committees; serving as an ex officio member of the board of SBC entities including the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board, and Lifeway Christian Resources; and ...
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The FGBCF was reported to have over 10,000 active members in 1993 and 20,000 in 1995; [5] in 1997 it claimed 1 million members and 5,000 churches throughout the United States. [1] As of 2020, they reported having approximately 2 million members; [6] in 2023, Full Gospel Baptists had approximately 10,000 churches. [7]